Rice Pixelation...Views from Above

Some people have too much spare time on their hands and figure if you're going to grow rice you might as well make it interesting. Well there are different colours of rice plants and they grow different kinds of rice, I guess. Today, one of my students gave me a bag of black rice and then told me what kind of recipes I should try with it. Anyway, that's neither here nor there, but it did encourage me to put up this posting of how a little bit of patience can go a long way. Enjoy!

Let's tell the Aliens were really smart.
It pays off when you get to the bottom.
What do you think?
This is not Photoshop.